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Around Paris - Milhaud, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók / Bandieri, Stuller, Vila
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Around Paris - Milhaud, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartók / Bandieri, Stuller, Vila

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Composer
BARTOK DEBUSSY MILHAUD
Artist
Bandieri, Stuller, Vila
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 26, 2021
Catalog #
BRI96001
UPC
5028421960012

About

During the first decades of the last century, Paris took over from Vienna as the center of the art-music’s universe. Ideas and styles exploded like fireworks from the French capital, and among the first figures sending them into the wider world was Claude Debussy. His Première Rhapsodie began life as a competition piece for clarinet, first performed in 1911, and while the later orchestral version is now more commonly heard, it is instructive to revisit the composer’s original, more subtly allusive first thoughts. Seven years later, by now dying of cancer, Debussy completed the last of three works in which he returned to the traditional form of sonata which he had avoided through much of his career in favor of tone-pictures such as the Préludes and suites for piano. The Violin Sonata counts among his most concise and refined works in an output touched throughout by those qualities, demanding the greatest subtlety and passion from its interpreters. In the same year as the Première Rhapsodie, Stravinsky had scored his career-defining succès de scandale with the premiere of Le sacre du printemps, and by 1918 he was established as a darling of the Parisian avant-garde when he composed L’histoire du soldat for a septet of instruments and narrator. The following year he arranged five self-contained numbers from the score into a suite, further reduced for a spiky instrumental trio and featuring the marvelously sly tango as well as the Rite-like final Danse du soldat. Milhaud’s Suite and Bartók’s Contrasts date from two decades later, but they are still infused with the absinthe and lemon of 20s Parisian culture. Heard together, the five works paint a portrait of a world of dazzling colours and restless momentum, sometimes bewildered by its own precosity, taking what it wanted from old cultures and always breaking new paths.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 I. Ouverture 01:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Ouverture
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Darius Milhaud
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  2. 2 II. Divertissement 03:17
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Divertissement
    Duration
    03:17
    Composer
    Darius Milhaud
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  3. 3 III. Jeu 01:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Jeu
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Darius Milhaud
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  4. 4 IV. Introduction et Final 05:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Introduction et Final
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Darius Milhaud
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  5. 5 Première rapsodie 08:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    Première rapsodie
    Duration
    08:33
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gerardo Vila
  6. 6 I. The Soldier's March (Marche du Soldat) 01:40
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. The Soldier's March (Marche du Soldat)
    Duration
    01:40
    Composer
    Igor Stravinsky
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  7. 7 II. Music from Scene 1, "The Soldier's Violin" 02:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Music from Scene 1, "The Soldier's Violin"
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Igor Stravinsky
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  8. 8 III. Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto) 03:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto)
    Duration
    03:04
    Composer
    Igor Stravinsky
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  9. 9 IV. 3 Dances: No. 1. Tango. No. 2. Waltz. No. 3. Ragtime 06:21
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. 3 Dances: No. 1. Tango. No. 2. Waltz. No. 3. Ragtime
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Igor Stravinsky
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  10. 10 V. Devil's Dance (Danse du Diable) 01:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. Devil's Dance (Danse du Diable)
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Igor Stravinsky
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  11. 11 I. Allegro vivo 05:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro vivo
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  12. 12 II. Intermède: Fantasque et léger 04:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Intermède: Fantasque et léger
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  13. 13 III. Finale: Très animé 04:40
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Finale: Très animé
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Performer
    Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  14. 14 I. Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance): Moderato, ben ritmato 06:02
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance): Moderato, ben ritmato
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  15. 15 II. Pihenő (Relaxation): Lento 04:51
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Pihenő (Relaxation): Lento
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila
  16. 16 III. Sebes (Fast Dance): Allegro vivace 07:22
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Sebes (Fast Dance): Allegro vivace
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Béla Bartók
    Performer
    Davide Bandieri, Gyula Stuller, Gerardo Vila